71 million people visited Apple's retail stores during the March quarter, which is about same amount of people that paid to attend a Major League Baseball game last season (73 million).

Apple retail is the only thing Steve Jobs would admit hiring a consultant for.

He told Fortune in 2008: "The only consultants I’ve ever hired in my 10 years is one firm to analyze Gateway’s retail strategy so I would not make some of the same mistakes they made [when launching Apple's retail stores]. But we never hire consultants, per se. We just want to make great products."

Apple plans to open 40 new stores by the end of September, about 3/4 of which will be outside the United States, including its fifth store in China.

Once a year, when the new iPhone comes out, thousands of people wait in line outside Apple stores for hours and hours and hours. Apple is smart enough to provide drinks, snacks, and umbrellas for shade or rain protection.